John Bel Edwards

John Bel Edwards (16 September 1966-) was Governor of Louisiana (D) from 11 January 2016, succeeding Bobby Jindal. Bel Edwards was a conservative, allowing for him to defeat Republican Party challenger David Vitter in the 2015 election.

Biography
John Bel Edwards was born in Amite, Louisiana, United States on 16 September 1966, and he received an engineering degree from West Point in 1988. Edwards served in the US Army from 1988 to 1996, serving in the US 82nd Airborne Division as a paratrooper. Edwards became a practicing attorney after leaving office, and he joined the US Democratic Party as a conservative Southern Democrat. In 2008, he was elected to the US House of Representatives, and he won the gubernatorial election of 2015. He protected LGBT people from harassment or job dismissals and made it illegal to refuse service to gay couples, although he expressed a willingness to work with Donald Trump's administration on Medicaid expansion and state infrastructure projects.